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Iraq-Jordan
"Saddam wants me," whines sacked lawyer
2005-08-11
I was SO hoping this would be Ramsey Clark...
A French lawyer
Drat.
who was part of a defence team for Saddam Hussein sacked by Saddam's daughter this week said the dismissal went against the former Iraqi leader's stated wishes. "The president himself expressed several times... his wish to keep a big committee around him, one that is as international as possible, to denounce the Americans' behaviour in his country," Emmanuel Ludot told RTL radio. He said Saddam made his position known during jail visits by his Iraqi lawyer, Khalil Dulaimi. Saddam's daughter Raghad on Monday issued a statement on behalf of her family saying: "From today, none of the lawyers, except Iraqi lawyer Khalil Dulaimi, will have the right to act on behalf of Saddam." She accused the other lawyers in the 20-strong team from several countries of using their position "to further interests not linked to the case."
You don't say.
Posted by:Seafarious

#2  ..to denounce the Americans' behaviour in his country," Emmanuel Ludot told RTL radio.

Seems to me he'd be better off planning his defense strategy instead; railing against American "behavior" in Iraq certainly isn't going to save his hide from the executioner.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-08-11 10:04  

#1  Should've been filed under Fifth Column...
Posted by: Raj   2005-08-11 01:18  

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